Seaside.driving.rar Direct

Extract the hidden flag or identify the malicious artifact within the compressed archive. 1. Initial Triaging

Checking EXIF data of the image using exiftool to find coordinates or hidden comments.

The first step involves verifying the file integrity and identifying the archive contents without full execution. MD5: [Insert Hash] SHA-256: [Insert Hash] Seaside.Driving.rar

Using unrar l Seaside.Driving.rar or 7z l , the following files were identified: Seaside.jpg (Possible Steganography) Driving_Instructions.txt (Potential hint or encoded data) Map.exe (Potential malware or custom binary) 2. Extraction & Analysis

[e.g., Digital Forensics / Steganography / Reverse Engineering] File Provided: Seaside.Driving.rar Extract the hidden flag or identify the malicious

Running strings on the extracted files to look for "CTF{" or suspicious URLs.

"The flag was hidden in the LSB (Least Significant Bit) of the Seaside.jpg image. Using stegsolve , the flag became visible in the Blue Plane 0." 4. Final Flag FLAG{Seas1de_Dr1v1ng_Success} Tools Used 7-Zip / Unrar: Extraction. Exiftool: Metadata analysis. CyberChef: Decoding Base64/Hex/Rot13 strings. StegSolve / Binwalk: Discovering hidden data in files. The first step involves verifying the file integrity

If the RAR was encrypted, describe how the password was found (e.g., rockyou.txt wordlist, hint in metadata, or brute force). Static Analysis: